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That extra you're about to get in super, most of it will come from you, but don't expect the ads to tell you that

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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There’s something odd about those television and internet advertisements telling us we are getting more super.

The money seems to come from nowhere.

“Pretty soon,” explains the woman getting onto an escalator, “the amount of super paid on top of our wages will go up”.

Fair enough, but the...

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